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Dr. Allbutt, Leeds, said that he had heard the evidence given by 
the previous witnesses with regard to temperature, and they corre¬ 
sponded with what existed in the human subject in cases of fever. 
A temperature of 104 degrees indicated fever. 
This concluded the case for the complainants. 
Mr. Ferns, in addressing the Court for the defence, said that the 
decision was awaited with extreme anxiety by a large number of the 
most respectable and extensive farmers in Yorkshire. The defend¬ 
ant was charged in the summons with torturing the cow ; that was 
to say, he did something which was an act of cruelty. He should 
prove, by the evidence of several experienced men, that it was 
actually dangerous to complete milking a cow before going to 
market if she had to be driven along the road. Cows were always 
half-milked under such circumstances lest they should take cold. 
The cow came into the possession of the defendant between ten and 
eleven o’clock on the morning of the 9th of April, and was relieved 
of some of its milk, after which it was taken out of the market. 
He maintained that the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to 
Animals was going beyond its province in interfering with matters 
over which it was never intended that it should have control. A 
large number of witnesses were then called for the defence. 
Mr. A. Hutchinson, cowkeeper, Headingley, said that he had 
kept cows for many years, and had now between 30 and 40. It 
was the custom to send cows to market with a meal’s milk in the 
udder. Shedding milk was not an indication of overcharge of the 
udder.—Cross-examined by Mr. Brumby, witness stated that it was 
the practice to milk the cows at five o’clock in the evening, and in 
the morning at the same hour, but this was not done when cows 
were going to the market. The reason was that the milk in the 
udder distending it, exhibited the milking properties of the cow. 
Mr. Wilson, Hedcote, Armley; Mr. Beaumont, tenant-farmer, 
Templenewsam ; Mr. W. Reeves, farmer, Scarcroft; and William 
Allen, in the employment of Mr. Wilson, corroborated the evidence 
of Mr. Hutchinson, as to the custom of sending cows to the market 
with the udder full, and that shedding milk was not an uncommon 
thing. The witness Allen stated that he relieved the cow of half a 
gallon of milk before it left the market. 
Mr. John Faulkner, veterinary surgeon, Wetherby, did not think 
that the retention of a meal’s milk was either detrimental or painful 
to the cow. He had seen a cow driven for some distance, although 
not milked for eighteen hours, and had also seen cows going along 
the road whilst the milk was spurting out of the teats of the udder. 
Mr. Joseph Drake, cowkeeper, Leeds, said that he did not like 
to buy a cow with a little udder; they did not generally prove 
good milkers. He also preferred to see a cow r shedding her milk, 
as she must be a free milker to do so. 
Mr. Poyson, surgeon, Scarcroft, said that shedding would give 
relief as the udder filled.— Mr. Thos. Dickson and Mr. Wm. Walker, 
the latter gentleman a farmer at Shadwell, also stated that it was 
the common practice to send cows to the market with the udder 
filled. 
